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Play for Today : Season 1
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Air date: 15 Oct '70 - 23 episodesPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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List of Episodes (23)
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Play for Today (1970)
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1. The Long Distance Piano Player
15 Oct '70A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
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2. The Right Prospectus
22 Oct '70A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
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3. The Lie
29 Oct '70""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
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4. Angels Are So Few
05 Nov '70A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
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5. The Write-Off
12 Nov '70A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
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6. I Can't See My Little Willie
19 Nov '70A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
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7. A Distant Thunder
26 Nov '70
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8. Hearts and Flowers
03 Dec '70A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
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9. Robin Redbreast
10 Dec '70A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
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10. The Hallelujah Handshake
17 Dec '70A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
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11. Alma Mater
07 Jan '71A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
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12. Circle Line
14 Jan '71
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13. Hell's Angel
21 Jan '71
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14. The Piano
28 Jan '71An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
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15. Billy's Last Stand
04 Feb '71
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16. The Rainbirds
11 Feb '71A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
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17. Reddick
18 Feb '71Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
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18. The Foxtrot
29 Apr '71An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
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19. When the Bough Breaks
06 May '71When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
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20. Orkney
13 May '71A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
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21. The Rank and File
20 May '71The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
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22. The Man in the Sidecar
27 May '71A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
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23. Everybody Say Cheese
03 Jun '71The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
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